- Born Name: Lloyd Vernon Hamilton
- Birthday: 1891-07-08 (Year-Month-Day)
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Lloyd Hamilton, For Lloyd Hamilton (aviator), see World War I aces credited with 10 victories.Lloyd Vernon Hamilton (August 19, 1891 in Oakland, California – January 19, 1935 in Hollywood, California) was a major silent film star. Hamilton is best remembered as the stocky half of silent comedys Ham and Bud (opposite diminutive Bud Duncan), and later, his own series of short comedies. Hamiltons skill was admired by his fellow comedians, thus contributing to his reputation as a comedians comedian—according to Oscar Levant, Charlie Chaplin singled him out as the one actor of whom he was jealous , Buster Keaton in an interview praised him as one of the funniest men in pictures, while Charley Chase, who early in his career had directed Hamilton in a number of short subjects, stated that he would often ask himself how would Ham Hamilton play this? before shooting a scene.In his solo comedies, the husky Hamilton adopted the persona of a slightly prissy, overgrown boy, and his films often have surreal touches: in The Movies he tearfully bids goodbye to his mother to go to the city, turns his back on the family farm, and steps directly into the city which is right next door. In Move Along he neatly lays his trousers in the street, to have a steamroller press them. Few of Hamiltons silent comedies survive; they were produced by Educational Pictures, which suffered a laboratory fire in 1937. Those of Hamiltons films that do exist are often prized by comedy collectors and silent-film enthusiasts.Hamilton was a heavy drinker, and it has long been claimed that he would often turn rather violent when intoxicated (however, in Anthony Balduccis recent biography on Hamilton (McFarland & Company, 2009) the author argues that there exists no evidence anywhere of this having been the case). In the late 1920s he was in a speakeasy when a boxer was murdered (Hamilton was not a suspect), and after the incident the motion picture authorities banned him from pictures. By 1929 he was back on screen in talking pictures (his speaking voice being a nasal tenor that fit his finicky screen character) but his continued drinking affected his health. Meanwhile, his alcoholism also affected his family life; he was married twice, first to Ethel Lloyd and later to Irene Dalton, but each marriage turned disastrous and did not last long.Hamiltons last starring series was a string of two-reel comedies produced by Mack Sennett. He continued to play the hapless victim of circumstance, as in Too Many Highballs where Hamilton tries to park his car and keeps getting boxed in by motorists. When the Sennett series lapsed, there was talk of Hamilton joining the Hal Roach studio, but Roach knew of Hamiltons notorious alcohol abuse and declined to hire him. Hamiltons facial features had acquired deep lines and hollows from heavy drinking, and he no longer looked like the overgrown boy in his final films.In 1935 he died during an operation for what was described as stomach troubles.Hamilton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[edit] Notes^ Oscar Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Pocket Books 1969 (reprint of G.P. Putnam 1968), p. 104. ISBN 0-671-77104-3.[edit] External linksLloyd Hamilton at Find a Gravehttp://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4159-4PersondataNameHamilton, LloydAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthAugust 19, 1891Place of birthDate of deathJanuary 19, 1935Place of deathRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_HamiltonCategories: 1891 births | 1935 deaths | People from Oakland, California | American silent film actors | Silent film comediansHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesSvenska This page was last modified on 26 January 2011 at 19:24.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Lloyd_Hamilton, wgTitle: Lloyd Hamilton, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 5765682, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 410220556, wgCategories: [Articles with hCards, 1891 births, 1935 deaths, People from Oakland, California, American silent film actors, Silent film comedians], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:3:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();